In North America, five families of moths have caterpillars that can deliver painful stings. Find out which ones in this article.

October. The world is suddenly cool and colorful. And alive with birds from the north passing through, insects galore and bursts of new wildflower blooms. I stole away one morning last week to walk a ...

Texas is home to some of the creepiest, crawliest, and otherwise oddest animals on the planet. We introduce you to them in What in Tarnation?!, an occasional series. Ah, springtime in Texas. Perfect ...

Most people recognize the brown-and-black striped woolly bear caterpillars crawling around these days, but late summer and early fall bring out more than one species of furry crawlers. Among the ...

Puss caterpillars, which have a painful, venomous sting, have been sighted in Central Florida. Resident Joel Mathis told Orlando TV station WOFL that he saw some of the fuzzy caterpillars in the city ...

A white tussock moth caterpillar in Corner Brook resident Mark Grady's garden on Aug. 11. (Submitted by Kenny Grady) Fuzzy caterpillars with orange and white backs flourished in the Humber Valley ...

Lynn White records an observation of a wooly caterpillar at Bulls Run Nature Sanctuary and Arboretum using the iNaturalist app. Lynn White aims her phone camera at a fuzzy caterpillar perched on a ...